時尚簡史05 | 拜占庭

Byzantine costume you'll find has its foundation in Roman attire You're gonna get your tunic, you're gonna get your pallet, you're gonna get your stoller But it is worked very, very differently Remember, the Silk Road was at its absolute height during this era And so the Byzantine Empire, which was prosperous You know, for the wealthy, for the imperial family and the high-ups was marked by silk, by embroidery, by jewels Very, very sumptuous Compared to a Roman attire, which was much more pared down But you are going to find the elements are in place Your tunic, your pallet, your stoller But let's take a look and see what the Byzantine Empire did with all this stuff All right, you've got your tunica Let's start with the boys You have your tunica beneath Okay, so both men and women wore tunicas Also known in this era as chitons Not to be confused with the chiton we saw in ancient Greece It's just the word being used again Just to make everything even more confusing for you So both men and women wore tunicas beneath the rest of their clothing Men's were calf-length and women's were full-length But here is a new item The dalmatica This is the dalmatica A dalmatica was an A-line tunic with split sides For the elite, it was embroidered or trimmed with jewels Now a lot of what we find in Byzantine costume Is actually still worn today Very much in its original form by the clergy Priests, for example, wear dalmaticas, don't they? When they are giving a special service So thinking about it This was the first official, official culture That officially used Christianity As the basis of their faith system As decreed by the emperor It's not surprising that their mode of attire Would kind of become the standard For religious Christian practice And it just hasn't changed So the dalmatica Let's move on to the ladies here We have the pala Remember we met the pala before And the stola The pala and the stola are still in play Just like in ancient Rome But in Byzantium for the upper classes Both the palas and stolas were made of sumptuous, colorful textiles Often embroidered and sometimes bejeweled All right For the imperial family For the royal family They wore this collar called a superhumeral Only worn by the royals The superhumeral was a large, heavily jeweled collar Worn by both genders And then the crown The Byzantine crown is called a loros or a palium And on a female palium There are strings of pearls and jewels Hanging from it at the front All right So I've just written it up there for you The imperial family wore heavily jeweled crowns The empress's crown sporting long strings of pearls That hung in two or three rows at the front Byzantine costume was an eye to It was a sight to behold The eye was dazzled by it And this was the whole point We really see costume being used as status here But what I find interesting about Byzantine costume Is that the location of Constantinople Right there in Turkey Right at the point where east meets west Really has this complete amalgamation Between what we have seen thus far in western costume Roman costume for example And this incredibly exotic influence from the east